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undertone

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undertone
a pale or subdued colour
undertone
1. A color modified by an underlying color, as in the effect of glazing over a thin film of paint.
2. A secondary color of a pigment which appears when it is diluted with a large amount of white.
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It was this profound and continual undertone that gave the clergyman his most appropriate power.
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
"I should think he is far from having a good constitution," said Lady Chettam, with a still deeper undertone.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
he soliloquised in an undertone of peevish displeasure, while relieving me of my horse: looking, meantime, in my face so sourly that I charitably conjectured he must have need of divine aid to digest his dinner, and his pious ejaculation had no reference to my unexpected advent.
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